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Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained (www.forbes.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Al0neStar@lemmy.world to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Bro really tried to sell his subscribers a "50$ a year" subscription to a "wallpaper" app.

Interesting points about the "app":

the app has premium and free wallpapers
the free wallpapers are only available in sd quality and if you want hd youd have to subscribe
in order to unlock the sd quality you have to watch two 30 second ads.
theres a wallpaper called "orange" thats just the color orange

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 79 points 2 months ago (13 children)

A wallpaper app? What is this, 2008?

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

And there's people in the comments being like "its only $5 for my favorite wallpaper app" which I just shake my head and laugh at. What kind of idiot eats this shit up? There's nothing better you can spend $5 than a shitty jpeg?

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Granted, it's probably my favourite wallpaper app too and I only learned about it yesterday. It's also my least favourite for the same reason. I've never used it, or any wallpaper app, or even knew they are a thing so it wins by default.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

my phone tries extra fucking hard to sell me on its built in wallpaper app which has data-scraping permissions out to here also

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

every fucking time I swipe wrong on the cheapdroid used for work things, the $vendor crapware "GLOBAL SEARCH" shitware app permission prompt comes up

and it's always a bloody effortful nuisance to click no on it. I legit can't tell if it's rejecting the clicks, or just trying so damn hard to spin up that it's eating all cycles. malware fucking everywhere.

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